Arab League warns of Israeli settlement expansion amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-08
TEHRAN, Apr. 08 (MNA)

US Gov Gives 1M Masks To Israel During Shortage, Coronavirus Censorship & Trump 'Holds' WHO Funding
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-08
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/7/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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Prisoners resist execution by virus
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2020-04-08
On a good day, most of the 5,000 prisons and jails in the U.S. are filthy hellholes. Medical care is seriously lacking and can be costly. Racism is ingrained in these institutions, and violence is often the order of the day. Right now, prisoners are terrified that as the COVID-19 . . . | Continue reading Prisoners resist execution by virus at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/47540/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=prisoners-resist-execution-by-virus

The Cruel Truth Behind Wisconsin's Uncancelled Election
Bill Lueders | progressive.org | 2020-04-08
State Republicans exploited the coronavirus crisis in an effort to elect a state Supreme Court candidate who objects to the idea of government helping people in need.
progressive.org/dispatches/cruel-truth-wisconsin-uncancelled-election-lueders-200408/

Montana Ballot Access Decision Suppresses Green Party Voters
Steve Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-08
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court held that unequal distribution requirements for statewide petitions violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Again in 1970, citing the 1969 Illinois case, the SCOTUS struck down New York's distribution requirements. Distribution requirements give voters in some geographical areas more power than voters residing in other areas in blatant disregard for a…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/montana-ballot-access-decision-suppresses-green-party-voters/

Venezuela Pres Maduro's Message to American people
repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-08
Oil rich Venezuela is again threatened with invasion, by Nazi Trump, with no opposition from any Democrat, sending an armada to Venezuela's shores, in the middle of a pandemic, under the obviously false pretext of drug-pushing, which the world knows Venezuela does not do. The democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro has sent an open letter to the American people. See www.globalresearch.ca/letter-president-m……
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/07/18832148.php

Video: US Confirms Deployment of Patriot Missiles in Iraq. Iran Prepares for Conflict in Strait of Hormuz
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
On April 5, a series of large explosions rocked the village of al-Kastan in southwestern Idlib injuring 8 people, including 3 members of the so-called White Helmets. According to local sources, an ammunition depot located in the civilian area inside …
globalresearch.ca/video-us-confirms-deployment-patriot-missiles-iraq-iran-prepares-conflict-hormuz/5708899

From heroes to pariahs: Colombia's medical personnel discriminated over coronavirus paranoia
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-08
Doctors and nurses throughout Colombia are reporting discrimination as general fear over the coronavirus pandemic is turning some against medical personnel. The latest case was reported by a Cali pediatrician…
colombiareports.com/from-heroes-to-pariahs-colombias-medical-personnel-discriminated-over-coronavirus-paranoia/

Amid Plague, Sanctions are Genocide
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-08
Sanctions have long been indefensible; now in the time of Covid-19, more so than ever. Nor are they some minor phenomena. Over a quarter of humanity lives under U.S. economic sanctions. That means millions of people lack untroubled access to food and medicines during a lethal pestilence. Thus in Iran, where the government fears millions of deaths from Covid-19, sanctions amount to genocide. Under ordinary circumstances, these embargoes are economic warfare. By putting Iran and Venezuela under economic siege even before the pandemic, the U.S. had murdered tens of thousands of those countries' citizens. Yet most Am…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/amid-plague-sanctions-are-genocide/

Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against negligence amid Coronavirus threat
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-07
Israeli prison authorities have failed to provide Palestinian prisoners adequate access to medical services, testing, protective gear and other essential sanitary items crucial to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in overcrowded Israeli prisons…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/07/palestinian-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-against-negligence-amid-coronavirus-threat/

Several Palestinians Ordered to Halt Construction in Jordan Valley
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
Israeli forces, on Monday, ordered a halt on the construction of several Palestinian-owned structures in Khirbet Yarza and al-Jiftlik villages in the Jordan Valley, according to sources. Activist, Aref Daraghmeh, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli forces handed a villager, identified as Salem Abu al-Tayyib, from Khirbet Yarza, east …
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3 Palestinian Workers Attacked, Injured by Israeli Settlers in West Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
A group of Israeli settlers attacked three Palestinian workers in occupied West Jerusalem, on Sunday, according to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic). Majed Fasfous 30, told the Center that the illegal settlers attacked him with a knife, stabbed him in the head, attempted to stab him in the back …
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Committee Concerned About Health of Palestinian Prisoners
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
Representative of the Ramallah-based Committee for Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-prisoners, Hassan Abd Rabo, expressed on Tuesday the committee's growing concerns over the safety of the 5,000 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails. Abd Rabo's remarks come amidst the internationally-spread Coronavirus, inside Israel and some Palestinian cities, towns and villages. He was …
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Shipping Container Confiscated by Israeli Forces near Hebron
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
Israeli forces Monday, seized a shipping container and tore down a stall in the Palestinian village of Khirbet Qalqas, south of Hebron city, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. WAFA correspondent confirmed that Israeli forces escorted heavy equipment into the village, in the southern occupied West Bank, where the heavy machinery …
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Israeli Troops Invade Parts of Gaza with Tanks, Bulldozers
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
Israeli troops reportedly, incurred earlier on Tuesday, into the northwestern part of the besieged Gaza Strip, with tanks and D-9 bulldozers. Local media outlets and witnesses said that at least four army bulldozers as well as other armored vehicles, incurred several hundred meters deep into a northwestern part of the …
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Millions of Americans face water shutoffs during pandemic
Jordan Davidson | nationofchange.org | 2020-04-07
"It's a package of related factors

Can Racism not Beget Racism?
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-07
Paul Craig Roberts, a former official in the Ronald Reagan government, has his own popular website and his articles are frequently published at the progressive Information Clearing House. I like much of what Paul Craig Roberts has to say, but liking some of the positions staked out by a person does not necessitate that a …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/can-racism-not-beget-racism/

Outrage as Wisconsin Forces Residents to Vote in Person During COVID Pandemic
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-07
In spite of coronavirus fears gripping the country, Wisconsin is ultimately moving forward with in-person voting on Tuesday. | Democratic Gov. Tony Evers made several attempts over the last several days to delay the spring elections in order to find an alternative to in-person voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Instead, Republican lawmakers, the conservative state Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court itself have all acted in ways that will either cause the virus to spread or disenfra…
truthout.org/articles/outrage-as-wisconsin-forces-residents-to-vote-in-person-during-covid-pandemic/

World Health Day: PCHR Calls for Providing Medical Supplies and COVID-19 Testing Kits to Gaza Strip's Health Sector
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) World Health Day is celebrated each year on April 7th, and it was first sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1950 to raise health awareness. The theme for World Health Day 2020 is "Year of the Nurse and Midwife" to support nurses …
imemc.org/article/world-health-day-pchr-calls-for-providing-medical-supplies-and-covid-19-testing-kits-to-gaza-strips-health-sector/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-health-day-pchr-calls-for-providing-medical-supplies-and-covid-19-testing-kits-to-gaza-strips-health-sector

Facebook's Strategy for Taking Down Hate Groups is Spotty and Ineffective
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-07
Facebook continues to provide a safe haven for hate groups and extremists despite the company's attempts to "stop the most egregious and dangerous groups from using its tools." Hatewatch staff previously reported several extremist groups and pages currently active on the platform directly to Facebook in 2018.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/07/facebooks-strategy-taking-down-hate-groups-spotty-and-ineffective

'Say no to hate speech and xenophobia', urges Guterres, marking 26 years since genocide in Rwanda
news.un.org | 2020-04-07
Remembering the more than one million people who over the course of just 100 days, were systematically killed in Rwanda, 26 years ago, the UN chief underscored on Tuesday that "we must never again let such an atrocity occur".
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A NATO pega em armas para "combater o coronavírus"
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-07
Os 30 Ministros dos Negócios Estrangeiros da NATO (Luigi Di Maio, em representaàßà£o da Itália), que se reuniram, em 2 de Abril, por videoconferência ( 1) encarregaram o General norte-americano Tod Wolters, Comandante Supremo Aliado na Europa, de "coordenar …
globalresearch.ca/a-nato-pega-em-armas-para-combater-o-coronavirus/5709005

'A Day That Will Live in Infamy': This Is What It Looked Like When Wisconsin Forced In-Person Voting During a Pandemic
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-07
As footage of Wisconsin's crowded polling stations flooded the internet Tuesday, public health officials and civil rights advocates condemned the state's Supreme Court and Republican legislative leaders for allowing in-person voting during the coronavirus pandemic and thwarting Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' last-minute efforts to address voter safety concerns. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/04/07/day-will-live-infamy-what-it-looked-when-wisconsin-forced-person-voting-during?cd-origin=rss

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian governor of Jerusalem
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-06
This is the seventh time that Adnan Ghaith is being incarcerated in the past 18 months. On Friday, Israeli forces arrested Fadi al-Hidmi, the PA minister of Jerusalem affairs…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/06/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinian-governor-of-jerusalem/

Armed Israeli Settlers Attack Family as Troops Abduct Three Palestinians
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-04-06
Armed Israeli settlers early on Monday, attacked a Palestinian family in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, a local source reported. According to Zeidan Alsharbaty, who lives in the Alshuhdaa St. in Hebron's downtown, several armed Israeli settlers infiltrated onto the rooftop of his family home, Israeli soldiers …
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Report: 17 Israeli Violations Against Gaza Fishermen
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-06
The Gaza-based Palestinian Agricultural Union issued on Sunday a report, outlining the amount of Israeli naval forces violations against Gaza fishermen, during March of 2020. According to the Department of Lobbying and Advocacy of the Palestinian Agricultural Union, Israeli naval forces, off the coast of Gaza, committed 17 violations against …
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Here is Why Jared Kushner is the Point Man for Private Profiteering During the Coronavirus Response
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-04-06
Raw Story See article on original site Hot off of singlehandedly ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, America's Son-In-Law-In-Chief has put himself in charge of handling half of the White House response to the coronavirus crisis. Didn't you know that? No? Oh, well, it seems the White House just decided that, ah, the people didn't need to …
cepr.net/here-is-why-jared-kushner-is-the-point-man-for-private-profiteering-during-the-coronavirus-response/

Is This The Death Of The Two-State Solution?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-06
In his new book, "Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality," Ian Lustick describes the end of not only the two-state solution, but also the idea of partition.
therealnews.com/stories/paradigm-lost-death-of-two-state-solution-israel-palestine

Israeli Soldiers, Colonists, Invade Qusra town
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-06
Many illegal Israeli colonists, and soldiers, invaded Monday, the town of Qusra, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Mohammad Jaber, the Mayor of Qusra, stated that the invading colonists came from Yesh Kodesh illegal colony, which was built on private lands, south of the town. Jaber added …
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Cook County Jail is a death trap
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-06
Chicago, IL

INSTEX: A way to get around US sanctions?
Nazila Bijari | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-06
On March 31, the trade vehicle INSTEX completed its first transaction by facilitating Iran's purchase of drugs and pharmaceutical supplies.
liberationnews.org/instex-a-way-to-get-around-us-sanctions/

Rights experts warn against discrimination in COVID-19 response
news.un.org | 2020-04-06
Fearing a needless increase in COVID-19 deaths due to discrimination, UN independent human rights experts on Monday called for Governments to commit to racial equity and equality in their response to the pandemic.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1061122

AOC slammed for blaming coronavirus deaths on inequality… after championing shutdown that accelerated it
rt.com | 2020-04-03
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has demanded minority-focused "reparations" for coronavirus, insisting "inequality is a comorbidity" exacerbating the deaths

Indigenous Men, Suicides, Racism, and Health Care. Who is Watching?
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-03
The suicide rate for Indigenous men across North America, especially within Canada, is disproportionate to the rest of the population and racism may very well play a huge role in…
projectcensored.org/indigenous-men-suicides-racism-and-health-care-who-is-watching/

Detained immigrants across Deep South feel like 'sitting ducks' as ICE ignores their safety amid global pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-04-03
COVID-19 began to infect the nation at rapid speed in March, reaching every corner of the country and taking the lives of more than 6,000 people by April 3. The United Nations has dubbed the coronavirus the "most challenging" crisis the globe has witnessed since World War II.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/03/detained-immigrants-across-deep-south-feel-sitting-ducks-ice-ignores-their-safety-amid

Google News Highlights Homophobic Stories about LGTBQ Community
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-03
In covering news stories about LGBTQ issues, Google News gives priority to "alt-right, anti-gay news websites," Matt Tracy reported for Gay City News in October 2019. Intentionally or not, Tracy…
projectcensored.org/google-news-highlights-homophobic-stories-about-lgtbq-community/

New Reports Place Israel Among World's 25 "Declining Democracies"
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-02
Both Freedom House and V-DEM's Annual Democracy Report shows Israel is experiencing a precipitous decline in democracy. Thought that would hardly be surprising to the 2 million Arab citizens that live there.
mintpressnews.com/new-report-show-decline-democracy-israel/266307/

Fighting for immigrant rights during a pandemic
Katrina Huber | splcenter.org | 2020-04-02
As people across the country are confined to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention has been given to a group of people whose health is in danger because they are locked away from the outside world

Alabama prisons hold more than 1,100 older people at greater COVID-19 risk
Kathryn Casteel and Will Tucker | splcenter.org | 2020-04-02
More than 1,100 people age 65 or older are locked away in Alabama prisons, putting a group already highly susceptible to the deadly COVID-19 virus at an even greater risk, according to an SPLC analysis of the state's prison system.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/02/alabama-prisons-hold-more-1100-older-people-greater-covid-19-risk

The Added Importance of the Census, in Light of COVID-19
Steven K. Choi | aclu.org | 2020-04-01
Last year around this time, my biggest worry was how the inclusion of the Trump administration's proposed citizenship question would depress participation in the decennial census. Thankfully, our Supreme Court victory means there is no citizenship question on the census. Now, I have a new worry: a global pandemic and the health of my loved ones. As it turns out, the 2020 Census plays a role here too, as it will have enormous implications on our health care for decades to come. | Specifically, the census will determine the allocation of $300 billion dollars of federal aid for the states' health care

SPLC, partners seek temporary restraining order to prevent immigration courts from becoming public health hazard
splcenter.org | 2020-04-01
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/01/splc-partners-seek-temporary-restraining-order-prevent-immigration-courts-becoming-public

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Communities Enduring Racism & Poverty Will Suffer Most Due to COVID-19
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-31
As the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States tops 3,100, states are demanding ventilators and medical supplies. Michigan is a growing hot spot and struggling to prepare for a surge in cases, but President Trump has repeatedly attacked Michigan's governor, calling her "that woman." We speak with the former director of the Detroit Health Department, Abdul El-Sayed. He's a physician and epidemiologist, and his new book is just out today, "Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic." His recent piece for The Guardian is headlined "Coronavirus is exploiting an underlying…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/31/abul_el_s…

Why 'School Choice' is Rooted in White Supremacy
Dora Taylor | progressive.org | 2020-03-31
A new book highlights how the movement to privatize education started with the effort to keep schools segregated.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/school-choice-rooted-white-supremacy-taylor-200331/

Right-Wing Media Joined Trump in Enabling Health Disaster
Karl Grossman | fair.org | 2020-03-31
"If Hitler succeeds in pointing the way of peace and order and an ethical development which has been destroyed throughout the world by war, he will have accomplished a measure of good not only for his own people but for all humanity."–William Randolph Hearst (New York Times, 8/23/1934) | The downplaying of the coronavirus by the right-wing press in the United States was preceded decades ago by the media owned by William Randolph Hearst enabling a different sort of toxicity by promoting a positive image of Nazism in the US.
fair.org/home/right-wing-media-joined-trump-in-enabling-health-disaster/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=right-wing-media-joined-trump-in-enabling-health-disaster

Neo-Confederate Group Moves Ahead with Conference Amid Covid-19 Outbreak
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-03-30
Michael Hill has no intention of letting a global pandemic cancel plans for the League of the South's annual conference.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/30/neo-confederate-group-moves-ahead-conference-amid-covid-19-outbreak

The Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery played key role in launching SPLC's legal battle against Ku Klux Klan
splcenter.org | 2020-03-30
The Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, who died on Friday at 98 years old, was a longtime friend of the Southern Poverty Law Center and played a leading role in the SPLC's first lawsuit against the Ku Klux Klan in 1980.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/30/rev-dr-joseph-e-lowery-played-key-role-launching-splcs-legal-battle-against-ku-klux-klan

Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative: COVID-19 Parole Informational Guide for Sponsors
splcenter.org | 2020-03-30
splcenter.org/20200401/southeast-immigrant-freedom-initiative-covid-19-parole-informational-guide-sponsors

[Commentary] A systems approach to preventing and responding to COVID-19
Declan Terence Bradley, Mariam Abdulmonem Mansouri, Frank Kee, Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
A novel zoonotic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in a pandemic of respiratory infection [1,2]. COVID-19 has provoked restrictive infection control measures, social and economic disruption, and expressions of racism [3]. Systems thinking can help policymakers understand and influence the spread of infection and its multifaceted consequences across the community since society is itself a complex adaptive system [4]. It can provide a framework to look beyond the chain of infection and better understand the multiple implications of decisions and (in)actions in face of such a complex situation involving many inte…
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30069-9/fulltext?rss=yes

Weekend Read: SPLC demands ICE act amid pandemic to save the lives of countless immigrants trapped in its crowded detention centers
splcenter.org | 2020-03-27
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/30/weekend-read-splc-demands-ice-act-amid-pandemic-save-lives-countless-immigrants-trapped-its

White Supremacists See Coronavirus as an Opportunity
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-03-26
Far-right extremists believe the intense uncertainty surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19 will aid their ability to recruit new members into their movement.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/26/white-supremacists-see-coronavirus-opportunity